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Who could have predicted this, though? If only there were some, no, any benevolent corporate deity poised to provide trusted global identity services for an eve
by washadjeffmad 2y ago
Who could have predicted this, though? If only there were some, no, any benevolent corporate deity poised to provide trusted global identity services for an event exactly like this.
If only this hadn't come out of the blue, maybe there'd be someone out there, right now, who could make it so that your identity traveled with you everywhere across the internet, an authentic digital fingerprint and passport so invisible that you can't even see or access it to keep people from having to prove themselves over and over and over again.
What a solution in search of a problem that would have been!
- 3np 2y agoHow have you not heard about Worldcoin? /s/s
- genewitch 2y agoGoogle should be able to say that I've had continuous access to my Gmail account since 2005 and therefore it's impossible for me to be under 18. Or 21. Right? All of a sudden, the internet is incapable of tracking me with that much fidelity. They don't know how old I am. Discord knows how old I am. I never told them my birthday. This gets a big "hrrrrrrr. Durrrrrrr." From me.
- washadjeffmad 2y agoLike "appearing under the age of 35" for carding for alcohol (note also that there's no legal requirement to verify age prior to sale), that's not an invalid method of age validation; there is no requirement for precision, only accuracy. Having an account that's at least 5 years old, assuming a legal age of 13 for registration on most services, should be enough. Some services already do it this way. Others offer to scan and analyze your face or ID. Leisure Suit Larry 1 used 1960s trivia for age verification. Given the list of states and awareness of some notable tech companies that operate out of them, it sounds like someone is doing a little competitive market making with the help of their legislators.